[size="3"]I use a Browning A-Bolt Slug gun for firearm deer.[/size] [size="3"][/size] [size="3"]I bowhunt with a recurve, which was NOT on the options list! That's why I'm the 1% of "OTHER"![/size] [size="3"][/size] [size="3"]As the late Rodney Dangerfield often said, "I don't get NO respect!"[/size]

Just so the next guy has it better, I changed option 1 to read "Traditional Bow (long or recurve)"

My favorite deer rifle is A NEF single shot Handy Rifle in 30-06 with a 3.5-12 x 55mm World Class Plus scope and a Butler creek neoprin sling.

My shotgun is a Mossberg 835 camo turkey deer combo. The rifled slug barrel has a Bushnell Elite 3-9x40 scope with Firefly ret. To sweeten up the 3.5" 12 Ga. I added a Limbsaver recoil pad and put a Breako mercury recoil reduction tub into the camo dual comb stock and slung it with a gator grip sling.

My favorite side arm for deer hunting is my Sig Mosquito double action semi auto .22lr pistol. 10 round clip, picatany rail with a Streamlight TLRII Laser and light. Never again will I fight coyote over my bow deer kill in the dark! I could do without the laser but that light is awesome and total overkill for a .22, light up a target over 100 yards.. Check one out.

"I enjoy and become completely immersed in the challenge and the increased opportunity to become for a time a part of nature. Deer hunting is a classical exercise in freedom. It�s a return to fundamentals that I distinctly feel are basic and right"-F.B.

Mossberg 835 woodland camo finish 12 gauge updated with a Knoxx Spec-Ops recoil reduction collapsible buttstock with pistol grip. Slugs do not thump me with the new buttstock installed and I have a quick follow up shot available due to the harmonics of the recoil pulse combined with the cycling of the action.